Did they get cancelled?! | Zager & Evans - In the Year 2525 | Reaction

Who knew music written in the 60's would warn us of the exact things going on today!? Zager and Evans sing In the Year 2525...
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[@luissoto8681]

The video was taken from the movie called Metropolis the film is almost 100 yrs old it was a silent movie but visually way ahead of its time you should give a watch.

[@MrsRealistic]

I loved the imagery! Thanks for the info!

[@gordowg1wg145]

I was going to say the same thing. 👍😎

[@northof4912]

Yes - I’m old enough to remember this song, not when it came out, but as a late 60s, 70s music fan. It was completely unique at the time, and so well produced - haunting…..

[@MrsRealistic]

That's so cool that you've heard it before!

[@northof4912]

@@MrsRealistic Heard it, remember it. Music was just so much better back then, songs like this were challenging societal norms, warning of the future. If only everyone had listened…..

[@buzbom1]

I was 8 yrs old when this came out. I remember hearing on the car radio first. My dad rest his sole leaned over, turned up the vol a bit saying "Oh, I like the harmonies on this one". He'd been hearing it at work for a couple of days on his little transistor radio. Good ole AM radio. Man, the time has flown by......OIY!!

[@MrsRealistic]

It sure has! I'm sorry for the loss of your dad!

[@buzbom1]

@@MrsRealistic Thanks, he was the best. Mr. jack of all trades, fishing, hunting, firearms teacher, on call fireman, 40yr machinist, and lead snare drummer four years in highschool. That's where I became a drummer/singer most of my life. And also full time machinist as well. Gotta make money to afford music toys, and Harley(wink).

[@sjddds]

I was 10. Now I’m a senior citizen

[@justafreethinker]

Great song from the '60s, Mrs. Realistic. Incredible but poignant and powerful one-hit wonder.

[@MrsRealistic]

Thanks! I truly enjoyed it!!

[@surlytim8558]

Metropolis, from 1927 is a great [and one of the first] dystopian movies and paired with this track it fits really well! The Stallone film was Demolition Man...

[@MrsRealistic]

Yes, I put it up on the screen. ;) I remembered while I was editing LOL!

[@surlytim8558]

@@MrsRealistic one of the best movies of the era!

[@surlytim8558]

@@MrsRealistic there's a really good remake of this song from FilmVizion.

[@littlegiantproductionsandr3091]

@@surlytim8558 Can't remake what already exists.

[@rhoanjenson7475]

All you have to do is pay attention to what is going on in our society the past 15 years or so and then you can see how relevant this song is today.

[@OldTrucker958]

Love this reaction! I was 11 when this song came out and it was always a favorite. Personally I give mankind possibly another 100-150 years. We won’t ultimately destroy the planet just our ability to survive on it. The planet will be just fine as George Carlin said

[@MrsRealistic]

I agree 100%!

[@littlegiantproductionsandr3091]

@@MrsRealistic I agree also.

[@mondeo33]

Fantastic song and I think the best truthful reaction to this song.

[@MrsRealistic]

Why thank you! 😊

[@davidkennedy6227]

You're right, I think instead of each being 1000 years apart it's more like every decade from the time they wrote this

[@Chuckles..]

I was just a kid not even ten year old when this song was on the radio. Songs like 2525 and The Byrds' Eight Miles High made me think.

[@glenngunnis6642]

Thank you for the reaction!🤘🎸

[@MsCatmando]

I was a young man at the Time when this song came out It's kind of scary.Because a lot of things are happening right now even as we speak And even back then.I thought about what the future would hold. Don't go by the dates because this stuff is happening.Now you have no idea the crazy stuff that's happening. You got it exactly right.You can pick out a baby from a test tube and determine what color eyes if it's a girl if it's a boy. Three it's crazy the things that are going on. I believe the Lord is coming back and when he does.He is going to shake things up

[@jukeboxdave6026]

Great reaction - love and respect from the UK 👍👍🌟😀😀 amazing channel 👍

[@MrsRealistic]

Thank you so much 😁

[@mburkitt7678]

Whether or not something is necessary, relevant, beneficial, benign, or even undesirable for the human race, never doubt that there are those who feel it is their mission in life to 'Just Do It' to claim their moment in history. Occasionally new things are found or learned, but many times we realize we need higher guardrails.

[@MrsRealistic]

Amen to that!

[@MichaelWilshusen-w4d]

50 yrs ago presidents said native people would be gone by now but their still here I'm part Cherokee Germane

[@davidgregoroff2168]

"If woman can survive" having their bodies legislated. I was 17 when this came out.

[@nedlalley6314]

If you hear "hard day on the planet" by loudon wainright iii you will be astounded. Boomer here. I was in jr high when 2525 came out.

[@kenthompson5723]

Also known as "Exordium & Terminus" this song went to number 1 on Billboard in the U.S and stayed there for 6 weeks. In my opinion it's the most apocalyptic song of all time, and no remake can come anywhere close to its emotional appeal and thematic depth. So popular is it worldwide that It's been covered over 60 times in 7 languages.

[@MrsRealistic]

Wow! That's amazing!

[@AJRabies]

Why would they be cancelled? Why do people get so weirded by this song? It simply speaks truth.

[@MrsRealistic]

@AJRabies I'm not weirded out by this song at all. It's just a funny title because apparently they were a "one hit wonder". I'm 100% on board with it... because it's clearly predicted the future... which is now our present.

[@AJRabies]

@@MrsRealistic I could tell you got it. I have seen other reviewers get touchy & nervous about this song. I wonder if the song will make it to that year?

[@kimm6777]

@@AJRabies At the pace mankind is going, I doubt humans make it to even 2225! Just look at what has happened in the past 100 years.........humans will be extinct by 2525.

[@georgeroszko8569]

It's called "lesser magic". "They" are bound by rule that they have to tell you the truth to protect themselves from the "magic" backfiring on them.

[@MarkSteele-bh3hb]

I was in Jr. High when this came out. What's scary is that a lot has all ready come to pass!

[@MrsRealistic]

Yes it has!

[@user-ff1dg9ii8u]

Love this song took lil bit to rem it but glad I found it great beat

[@samuelbeach5585]

10,000 years? Oh, It will all happen far sooner than that.

[@TheRokjok]

Zecharia Sitchin had a theory that our society and technology is catching up with the previous earth civilization . Apparently the last civilization was destroyed by technology.

[@MrsRealistic]

I wouldn't be surprised at all!

[@richardburdon3241]

if you're really interested in this type of thing, try listening to Paul Harvey ''if I were the devil'' recorded in 1965, you'll be amazed how spot on he was

[@MrsRealistic]

Yes, that's one of my favorites. He was FAR ahead of his time!

[@charlesfrancis6894]

I remember the 60s and got 2525 and Eve of destruction .

[@user-et2om3ug2j]

i heard the song when i was a kid

[@fb-gj7yi]

Demolition man was a visionary movie.

[@MrsRealistic]

It sure was!

[@PatrickOneal-nl7xk]

no , it wasn't even being talked about until the 80... they were predicting and they sure came very close.

[@MsCatmando]

If you're interested there's another song that is really deep.It's called eve of destruction. By Barry MCguire

[@michaelvincent4280]

You noticed all the people in the 'looking at my cell phone' stance? This footage is from a silent movie in the 1920s.

[@MrsRealistic]

Yup, it's pretty amazing

[@Steve-em1ok]

As was already mentioned, the video is clips from “Metropolis,” a 1927 German movie (keep in mind what was happening in Germany; Weimar and starvation, Hitler was rising through the ranks).that might be thought of as the tinfoil hat scenario of the day.

[@MrsRealistic]

Good point!

[@charlesfrancis6894]

We the people do not decide if we adopt AI but a small elite do .True democracy does not exist anywhere on this planet.

[@MrsRealistic]

Very true! We don't hold any power, but they try to make us think we do.

[@DomingoDeSantaClara]

Towards the end he sings about it only being the day before somewhere else ( the multiverse). It is just one possible path for humanity, it might seem like we are on that path, but taking a turn at any point could have vastly different outcomes long in the future, just as our past affects our today. The rub is knowing which turn to take, and when to take it.

[@MrsRealistic]

I can only hope we take the right path...

[@d2ndborn]

13 when I heard this song on the car radio. It was the same year as the moon landing.

[@HCH944]

Sitting in front of a black/white TV watching every second you could get...... Humans landing on the moon !!!!!! Everything will be better in future...thats what we thaught.......

[@jamielandis4308]

My parents had this on 45. I played that record to shreds as a kid. If you’re looking for some fun similar themes, check out the albums “Time,” by ELO and “Kilroy Was Here,” by Styx. Both are semi-dystopic concept albums. Just begin with the first song on each, though with “Time” you need to listen to “Prologue/Twilight” together. The movie you’re thinking of is “Demolition Man.”

[@MrsRealistic]

@jamielandis4308 That's so cool! I had a record player back when I was about 9. Ah the good old days. I remembered "Demolition Man" when I was editing and added the text to the video 😊👍 Thanks for the other album suggestions! I remember those bands.

[@georgeroszko8569]

Watch "Metropolis". It'll show you what "they" want to do to us for their benefit.

[@MrsRealistic]

Soilent green is peeeeople!! It's PEEEE-PULLLLL!

[@haveanicedave1551]

Logan's Run is only 250 years away. It's 2274 there. 251 years after 2274, it'll be 2525.

[@MrsRealistic]

We watched the planet of the apes (the reboot with Mark Walberg) with the kids the other day and the beginning supposedly takes place in 2029. We kind of all chuckled.

[@DougRayPhillips]

I don't think they were cancelled. This was just a one-off.

[@Joe-lb8qn]

Yep this is one of the well known one-hit wonders, I'm old as dirt and recall it first time round.

[@DeansMayhem]

God bless you Mrs. Realistic

[@scottbehr5690]

" you'll pick your sons daughters too from the bottom of a long glass tube" It's ironic, or more prophetic that just 9 years after this song came out, the first "test tube baby" was born! In the 60;s and 70's there was no such thing as "being canceled" From what I understand Denny Zager didn't like the fame. He's still living and makes guitars.

[@MrsRealistic]

It's really pretty freaky. I'd love to hear what they think about their song today!

[@philunderwood8553]

Human nature is and always has been the danger, it never really changes much no matter the technology, hence the line at the end of the song, "Maybe it's only yesterday..."

[@vernhoke7730]

I was 10 when this was released in the summer of 1969. It played in continuous rotation of AM radio for quite a while. It was huge. Sadly, they really didn't have any other songs that hit the charts. You have to remember the times at well back then. The space race between us and the Soviets was in the news, we were the first to the moon, racial unrest was rampant in the country, my father had just retired from the Army after serving in Vietnam and he got caught up in riots while selling insurance in a neighboring town, and young men were dying thousands of miles away in a foreign country in a war half the country didn't support.

[@MrsRealistic]

Yes, I suppose there were other things people were paying much more attention to.

[@littlegiantproductionsandr3091]

@@MrsRealistic Yes. "Other things". Just like now...

[@MrsRealistic]

@@littlegiantproductionsandr3091 Spot on my friend!

[@richarddeveas4537]

I believe this song was influenced by the article "The Future as a Way of Life" in Horizon magazine, Summer 1965 issue. Which led to the book Future Shock is a 1970 book by American futurist Alvin Toffler,[1] written together with his wife Adelaide Farrell,[2][3] in which the authors define the term "future shock" as a certain psychological state of individuals and entire societies, and a personal perception of "too much change in too short a period of time". The book, which became an international bestseller, has sold over 6 million copies and has been widely translated.

[@MrsRealistic]

I might have to look into that book! Thanks!

[@HCH944]

Great memories...... But.....second line: if men is still alive............ Think this is the most important line. Since then (a little bit earlier) mankind had the first time the ability to erase itself........ Nowadays the question is more: will mankind be enslaved by AI or be erased ...either by itself or by AI.....which.....developed enough doesent need humans anymore....... Nobody back then thought we will have phones for the pocket ....... Our signal to come home had been the street lights....... You can spend an philosophical night on that song............

[@MrsRealistic]

So true! AI is the dumbest thing to ever be invented.

[@littlegiantproductionsandr3091]

@@MrsRealistic Not so fast. Nuclear weapons may yet have the final "mic drop".

[@northof4912]

The irony is all of the imagery in the video is 30s or 40s movie footage……

[@mburkitt7678]

The song writers were viewing on those old movies and commenting on their relevance in the same way we are today when we look at their music.

[@davechristie6867]

@@mburkitt7678 Huh?

[@Joe-lb8qn]

The imagery is from the film Metropolis which was pre talkies, 1920 something. Stunning effects for 100 years ago.

[@sherigrow6480]

In 1969, we knew about eugenics from WWII, and also Star Trek. But the test tube baby wasn't a thing yet,

[@MrsRealistic]

@sherigrow6480 wow, I didn't think so! That's crazy that they mentioned that then!

[@AJRabies]

IVF (test tube babies) was first successfully done on a non-human mammal in 1959. First human attempt 1973. First successful human IVF birth - 1978. So, yes, people knew about IVF in 1969.

[@craigbolton5093]

You're my favorite YouBoomer!

[@MrsRealistic]

Ha ha! Thank you!!

[@albertdraves7584]

Try Barry McGuire's " Eve of Destruction".

[@P-M-869]

I remember when this came out. I am also familiar with the movie Metropolis. It was just on TV the other night.

[@MrsRealistic]

I wish I could find a place to watch it, without paying 😕 😆

[@ImeldaGarcia-k7r]

There are like six or seven different versions of this song 😢😢. I have heard it a million times, since I was a child

[@antarcticaaficionado]

Great reaction to a song that fascinated me even as a child. And even more so as I got older and understood the meaning. I agree with many of your statements. But in one case, you too are a victim of targeted disinformation through social media. If you believe that Elon Musk is actually warning about the dangers of AI because he cares about the well-being of humanity, freedom and democratic values, then you are completely on the wrong track. If he does this publicly, it only serves to maintain his philanthropic image and facade as public discussion about the dangers of AI becomes louder and louder. And speaking out as a warning voice in this discussion is, of course, very well received by the gullible. Please don't take this as a personal attack, but we in Western Europe (still) have free media that are not completely controlled by opinion-forming corporations, autocracies and dictatorships, which is why we probably know more about what is going on behind the scenes. Elon Musk is not the protector of humanity and savior of the world that he portrays himself to be in public. That is just what the whole world is supposed to believe about him. He is a master of manipulation and disinformation, and unfortunately his charade works in most people's minds. Elon Musk has very close ties to leading figures in the right-libertarian movement (Peter Thiel, to name just one), who fundamentally reject any form of democracy and constitutional legality, including, for example, women's suffrage. And Musk's takeover of Twitter was not simply an extravagance of a bored multi-billionaire who doesn't know what to do with his money. He did it with very specific intentions. A quote from an article of 2022 by the German publicist Richard Herzinger (herzinger.org - sorry, but only in German) that aptly sums up his true intentions: "By taking over Twitter, Elon Musk has acquired a powerful tool for influencing public opinion. Under the pretext of allowing more "diversity of opinion", he is opening up the short message service to fake news and anti-democratic conspiracy fantasies - and thus to the Kremlin's disinformation warriors and the networks of their western sound amplifiers. Billionaires like Musk or Peter Thiel embody a new type of egomania that is reminiscent of the villains of the James Bond films and calls democracy into question worldwide." So my advice to you is to inform yourself beforehand about people who you portray in your videos as having integrity.

[@MrsRealistic]

Oh, no, I'm NOT a huge fan of Elon. I think that was misconstrued...I was just saying that even "Mr. brain chip" talks about how AI might end up replacing us. There's a video on it.

[@antarcticaaficionado]

​@@MrsRealistic No problem, it was actually a misinterpretation, as English is not my native language. Things like that can happen because we are (fortunately) not an AI, which cannot interpret, only act. 😉 BTW, Since the two musicians Denny Zager and Rick Evans only formed a musical duo from 1969 to 1970 and only had this one worldwide Top 100 Billboard success, they are the biggest one-hit wonder of any artist at any time in recording history selling over 20 million records world wide. Denny Zager had already composed the song in 1964 in only about half an hour. It was only after he and Rick Evans played the song live in 1969 and the audience liked it that they decided to record it. And the rest is history, except that In The Year 2525 is and will be probably one of, if not the most covered songs of all time.

[@MrsRealistic]

​@antarcticaaficionado Well, I wouldn't have known! Your English is really good! Thanks for that extra info about them! I'm glad I got to hear this one 😁👍

[@nightwishlover8913]

The Stallone film was Demolition Man (w/ Sandra Bullock). I remember this song coming out in my mid-teens - never realised I'd be living it. Thank Darwin I won't be around to see much more of it...

[@MrsRealistic]

Yes, I remembered while I was editing (I put it up on the screen). When I watched that, it was SOOO crazy, but now it's really not that shocking to think of that being a reality.

[@TimothySmiths]

The best movie about genetics and what can and is happening now is the movie Gattaca.

[@MrsRealistic]

I LOVE that movie!!

[@jrobinson7206]

If you haven't seen the movie "Contagion". It'll scare the crap out of you. I'm starting to believe we're being warned but too entertained to notice

[@MrsRealistic]

I have seen that! They love to keep us scared... whether it's the main stream media, movies, the medical community, etc. But they like to dangle things in front of us, to keto us distracted from what's REALLY going on. It's been happening for eons. There's so many people who take the bait and concentrate on things that really don't matter.

[@craigplatel813]

Early Beatles vibe!? Absolutely not!

[@user-ff1dg9ii8u]

I said that we will be just like WALL-E

[@MrsRealistic]

As soon as I saw the movie, I was like, "This is literally what's happening to people..."

[@MatiasWVera]

Yes I loved this movie Atlas

[@stevecrisell108]

Scary Times. Gonna Be Like Putting Out A Fire With Petrol. Great Song, Great Reaction As Usual.

[@MrsRealistic]

Very true!

[@DeansMayhem]

Call me crazy but "The Warning's" "Disciple" is right along these lines. "Tip of the tinfoil hat".

[@MrsRealistic]

Yes, Disciple is another one warning us about this!

[@quantockbeech]

Fascinating, isn't it? You might find 'Stephen Fry describing our future with artificial intelligence and robots' an interesting watch too.

[@MrsRealistic]

Thank you!

[@karlosthegr3at-casinogrounds]

My dad said this was a great song in the day he was born 1949 he's 75. Do we have any corvyx lined up?

[@d2ndborn]

Wonder if Ren has heard tis song, his reaction would be interesting.

[@MrsRealistic]

That would be really cool to hear what he thought!

[@gophix]

Pills you took ..... - Huxley/Brave New World. Give a read

[@MrsRealistic]

Huxley and Orwell were so ahead of their time!

[@scot_irsh]

The first test tub child was born 1978. So the answer is no to your question.

[@MrsRealistic]

It's crazy that they even had that in the song!

[@scot_irsh]

@MrsRealistic and in the late 70's early 80s is when the auto industry was replacing people with robots.

[@scot_irsh]

@@MrsRealistic oh, the movie is on prime. If you want to watch it.

[@ecoffey71]

I'm embarrassed.Almost 52 years and never heard this till a couple years ago.As a teen I listened to everything dmfrom Buddy Holly to Chuck Berry to the Greatful Dead Doors to Glam Rock and some how never heard this...this song is scarey seeing the political climate

[@MrsRealistic]

They were ahead of their time I guess!

[@paranoidgenius9164]

I'm not religious but.... God created man, man destroys God, man created A.I., A I. Destroys man............

[@MrsRealistic]

You've got that right!

[@gatekeeperTWA]

namaste from canada \m/

[@keithallison4586]

Thus has no Beatles vibe

[@daveyjones6465]

In response to your thumbnail no they did not get cancelled

[@john.brown.]

The birth of the world's first 'test-tube baby', Louise Brown, on 25 July 1978 in Oldham, northwest England has come to represent the origin story of technologically assisted human reproduction

[@MrsRealistic]

It's crazy that they predicted this in 1969!

[@fozybear64]

I think early 80's 1st test tube baby born a girl

[@gordkolle-bl1ci]

the first test tube baby twins occurred in nineteen eighty two in canada. in vitro fertilization produced two embryos in a test tube, which were then placed in the mother, Kit Rankin. they grew to normal children..out of a test tube. i know. because i was a newspaper reporter who followed the case and interviewed the Rankin family in oakville, ontario, canada. i'm retired now. but have also recently learned that one of the test tube babies became a father; the first test tube baby to become father to a child born of an actual woman. i dont think that humans come straight out of the test tube exclusive of a human pregnancy..yet. but its gonna happen. and that will fulfill the zagar and evans prophecy. btw, love your comments. you are not a crazy tinfoil hat lady at all.

[@MrsRealistic]

I remember hearing about that! It's truly amazing. 🙌

[@gordkolle-bl1ci]

​Yeah. You know, the more i live and breathe the less i believe the bullshit. Because you are right, it does seep through our daily lives, insidiously. We are being prepared for things we know nothing of and yet we blithely accept everything thrown at us. As a former reporter for 25 years​, i helped pave the way for this stuff by focusing on the drama, not the content.@@MrsRealistic

[@MrsRealistic]

@@gordkolle-bl1ci You're so right. They want us to not find anything weird about the things going on... so they prepare us for years ahead of it to just blindly nod and smile.

[@milipro828]

I was a kid when this came out so I didn't really appreciate the message back then. It makes more sense now!

[@MrsRealistic]

Yeah, back then it was just one of those "conspiracy theories" ;)

[@littlegiantproductionsandr3091]

@@MrsRealistic Or even more cluelessly, just another pop song.

[@MrsRealistic]

@@littlegiantproductionsandr3091 Exactly!!

[@MichaelWilshusen-w4d]

I was born 10,28,64 i figured id be died by now either by car or shot ,stabbed,drugs,alcohol, im 59 in 2 mths. I'll be 60. Demolition man also Wesley Snipes in it watch Metropolis its great also

[@MrsRealistic]

Thank you so much! 😊

[@mostpplarezombies]

We don't live on a planet. We live on a plane. Hopefully you will come to this realization as well.

[@MrsRealistic]

A plane of consciousness! Or a "video game". ;) I've talked about that in some of my other videos.

[@ImeldaGarcia-k7r]

This is not a good video. The rest are better.